2. Ivory coast Larry Everly Per. 2 Geography

3. Fast Facts Official name: Republic of the Côte d'Ivoire Population: 17,654,843 Currency: CFA franc Capital City: Yamoussoukro (pop:120,000) Language: French (official) National Day: August 7 (Independence Day)

4. Foods Yams, plantains, rice, millet, corn, and peanuts are staple foods in Côte d'Ivoire Kenke: Cornmeal cooked in leaf eaten with dried fish and chile paste and you can eat it on the go Red Red: Boiled bananas sweet red palm oil usually breakfast meal Foo Foo (national dish) boil cassava green planties Treeless plain: rice with peppery peanut sauce They are really big on coca bean

5. Sports Soccer Polo Rugby Track

6. Places To Visit Paris of West Africa: Beautiful parks, broad boulevards heart of this town St. Pauls Cathedral. Hotel Ivory: Skating rink,casino,bowling movie theater, tennis courts and supermarket Banco National Park: Outskirts of Abidjan 7,500acre tropical rain forest Korhogo has an airport, pools, movie theaters, large markets Man: Lush green hills is the main thing to visit here is it colorful market, then a water fall in a bamboo forest.

7. Music Traditional music style series of melody and rhythm They don’t do anything without music Rice, Death, Marriage, Birth, Weather are all celebrated with music. Can make local instruments out of anything gourds, animal skins and horns. Instruments used Talking drum, djembe, Kpalogo, Shekere (Youroo), Akombe, Cleavers King Sunny Ade

8. Religion 12% Christianity 25% Muslim 63% Traditional beliefs The majority practice traditions ancestral worship. They believe dead transformed into sprits reminded in contact with living then juju priest give them advice of how to avoid danger and bless necklace to scare bad sprits

9. Life Style Poor people live in overcrowded slums without water electricity and have cone thatched house. Rich people live in city with 2, 3 story house Parents, children, grandparents, uncle, and aunts all live in the same house Western and traditional clothes Western people clothes blue jeans shirt girls traditional clothing wear pangnes

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